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‘A Lume in every room’: U of T Engineering alumni are reimagining home robotics — starting with your laundry

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Rayla Myhal receives Honorary Alumni Award

In this prototype carbon capture apparatus, a solution of potassium hydroxide is wicked up into polypropylene fibres; circulating air evaporates the water in the solution, concentrating it to very high levels. The white crystals are nearly pure potassium carbonate, formed from carbon removed directly from air. (photo by Dongha Kim)

New ‘rock candy’ technique offers a simpler, less costly way to capture carbon directly from air

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The U of T Engineering holiday gift roundup: Four must-have wearables

December 18, 2014

Brendan Frey (centre) and his team developed a system that teaches computers to ‘read the human genome’ and rate likelihood of mutations causing disease (pictured with first co-authors Leo Lee and Hui Xiong) (Photo: Jessica Wilson).

Machine learning reveals unexpected genetic roots of cancers, autism and other disorders

December 18, 2014

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Engineering startup makes buildings earthquake resistant

December 17, 2014

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U of T Engineering team delivers $1 detection system for measles and rubella

December 16, 2014

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